Your one-stop thread for early thoughts on pitchers
Posted by: Sam Borden - Posted in Misc on Feb 25, 2011 
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I get a lot of emails (and Tweets – I’m @SamBorden, by the way) from people asking about how this particular pitcher looks or what the Yankees think of that young lefty. It’s understandble, of course – this is what spring training is all about. But when Larry Rothschild talked to a group of reporters earlier today, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to do a post with his thoughts on a slew of the Yankee pitchers.
So, if you’ve been wondering about one of the off-the-radar pitchers for the Yankees – i.e. those guys not named Sabathia or Hughes or Burnett or Rivera – then click after the jump for the pitching coach’s early opinions …
On Dellin Betances: “He’s got a real good changeup, he can spin the ball, and he’s a big kid that has a pretty good feel for delivery for that big a kid. It usually takes taller kids a little bit longer, but he’s pretty good. He’s got three pitches, it’s just a matter of being able to repeat a lot. He’s certainly got the makeup. I don’t think he scares. He’s got a look that’s pretty intense.”
On Manny Banuelos: “He’s a nice lefthanded arm. He’s a kid with a good look. He’s able to repeat his delivery very well, and does things pretty easily. So I think, future-wise, he’s someone that should have a good future here. He’s a young kid that’s got to go through all the steps to get here.”
On Ivan Nova: “I think he’s got the pitches to win here. I think, like a lot of young kids that haven’t had a lot of experience, he’s got to really determine the fact that he belongs here. … I think the confidence thing is huge for him and I think he’s capable of pitching well for us.”
(Follow-up: Why did Nova struggle toward the end of starts last year?) “I think he’s got to pitch through some of the barriers that young kids do. That’s learning how to win games at this level and push through the fact that it’s not just trying to get through the fifth, but you’re looking for the sixth or seventh and even deeper than that. It’s really just focusing on making the pitches and you make as many pitches as you can in a given game one at a time. … I think he needs to put the blinders on and just execute the pitch at hand.”
On Sergio Mitre: “At this point in Serge’s career, he’s pitched in relief, he’s pitched long relief a little bit, middle I think. He’s started. Those guys aren’t easy to find, that can adjust and go back and forth. They’re pretty valuable guys to have. They tend to be overlooked until towards the end when they’re the 11 or 12. I don’t think it’s all that out of character in camp. I hope he knows that he’s got a valuable role here in what he needs to do for the team.”
On Andrew Brackman: “I saw him the last month. He came in early on the other side, threw some bullpens there, and threw some batting practice. I didn’t see him before but I think he’s made some really good strides.”
(Follow-up on whether he’s worried about Brackman’s groin injury): “This seems to be very, very minor. It’s really more precautionary more than anything else.”
(Follow-up on Brackman’s breaking pitches): “He’s got a good breaking ball. He can spin a curveball really well. The guy’s almost 7-feet tall. But his delivery has been pretty clean, he’s an athletic kid so he’s been able to put it together pretty well. The arm strength you know is there. Because of the height, the release point’s out front, past where a lot of guys release the ball. So it should jump on hitters quicker. I haven’t seen him live in a game. I have seen some tape of him but it’s been kind of limited from what they had in the minor leagues. So I look forward to seeing him in a game to see where he is with stuff.”
# LibertyBoy February 25th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for that photo, he’s a midget with big shoulders. Swisher is listed as 210. I met the guy, now there’s a 195 pounder.
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Step right up folks!
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Good idea, but I’d still like to know what Rothschild thinks about Phil, Joba, etc……
I assume that Rothschild hasn’t seen much of the other youngsters, like Phelps, Warren and DJ Mitchell other than bullpens?
I was expecting Rothschild to say Banuelos was too short and had too good of a delivery to have much of a future……
WC, James Cromwell is in Murder by Death? LOL The thing I remember him from is an epsiode of Little House on the Prairie……I know he was in the Babe movies (though I didn’t see them).
3) It is argued that I am wrong about the rarity of small starters. Examples are dropped: Valenzuela, Pedro, and Johan (I won’t mention Lincecum b/c I brought him up, I’m surprised no one else mentioned him). I comment that all of those pitchers were exceptional, Cy Young pitchers. I suggest that Banuelos does not seem exceptional to me, that I would be more comfortable predicting his success as a starter (or at least, his future as a starter) if there was something unusual about his bearing, his delivery, etc.
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Not exeptional? He’s one of the highest ranked pitchers in the entire minor leauges. He has plenty of velocity and doesn’t need a Lincecum type delivery to throw at that velocity. Santana did not blow hitters away with 98mph fastballs. It was his fastball accuracy combined with an excellent changeup that made him successful. That’s where the comparison comes from.
Thanks Sam. Interesting to get Rotschild’s perspective.
I am brand new here after months of lurking. but I have been watching the Yankees since 1950, when you could get a box seat for $5.00 or bleakers for 50 cents. I already like most of you posters. On the subject of little left-handers, let me suggest Bobby Schantz and Ron Guidry. There are a slew more, but those are the ones that came to mind. Neither too shabby.
The Yankees are loaded with young pitching talent.
What an awful problem to have.
Poor Mr. Rothschild. He won’t know which way to turn first.
Betsy: I figured there will be plenty of threads about the more established guys so it would be good to do a post with his thoughts on some of the less talked-about pitchers.
Whitey Ford wasn’t too shabby either at 5’10″ .
Welcome tomingeorgia. Nice to have you.
“I already like most of you posters.”
You are new then.
Harry Brecheen, Harvey Haddix, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford, Al Downing, Eddie Lopat….all lefties under 6 feet and under 185 pounds that had to apologize to nobody. I can go further back, but, then, that was normal height.
Thanks, Fran. And Pat, I said “most”.
pat February 25th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
“I already like most of you posters.”
You are new then.
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Just a passing fad. he’ll get over that by next week.
Manny B. spring training 2011 bullpen video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjbKirxWpAE
There are some other good ones for other players in the “suggestions” area to the right by the same poster.
GB7,
5Th sfg, Company C, 1965-1968
MTU
Yes, what a horrible situation. Yanks might have to close up shop, because they won’t be able to make a decision in a timely manner and cause games to stall.
Welcome back.
Sam, if it came out like I was criticizing you, I apologize – that was not my intention!
# pat February 25th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
“I already like most of you posters.”
You are new then.
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Not TOO new, he goes back to 50′ ! LOL I go back to following Yanks from 57′ W.S. when they lost to Braves and came back the next year and beat Braves, after being down 3 games to 1.
He might like some of us LOL
Imagine getting a nickname like “Big Six” (Walter Johnson) because you’re 6 feet tall.
Today, he would be called “Little Walter”.
KPB-
Thank you.
Survived yet another adventure.
Hope things are well down on the Bayou.
Today, he would be called “Little Walter”.
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He’d be a reliever.
tomingeorgia February 25th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
GB7,
5Th sfg, Company C, 1965-1968
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Congrats, Tom, and welcome home.
An undrafted free agent stuck in the bullpen.
GB-
No Man would like to be called little Walter.
MTU
Doing well thanks. Looking forward to tomorrow and shaking off the winter slumber.
Joe Torre to be a Park Ave executive.
http://www.kttc.com/Global/story.asp?S=14143931
# GreenBeret7 February 25th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Harry Brecheen, Harvey Haddix, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford, Al Downing, Eddie Lopat….all lefties under 6 feet and under 185 pounds that had to apologize to nobody. I can go further back, but, then, that was normal height.
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Yeah, I think Spahn did “okay” as the all time winning lefty and Whitey did “okay” with one of the highest ever winning percentages.
MTU February 25th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
GB-
No Man would like to be called little Walter.
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Not sure he’d rather be called, “Little Willie”.
KPB-
Amen to that brother.
A chance to see some of the kids in real live action.
A chance to judge for your self instead of relying on the Keith Law’s of the world.
# MTU February 25th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
GB-
No Man would like to be called little Walter.
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Or Little Johnson either !
No GB, but “Big Train” sure works.
I don’t think LibertyBoy knows what the phrase “the company line” really means.
I thought Christy Matthewsons nickname was Big Six and Johnson’s was the Big Train?
Mathewson is my favorite old time player – died too young
Was listening to Michael Kay. He is flying down to Tampa tonight to call the games this weekend.
So ready for some baseball. Even Kay will sound good.
One thing those guys had listed? All had 20 win seasons and over 100 career wins. The bum.
Little Walter – My Babe
Good song.
I don’t think LibertyBoy knows what the phrase “the company line” really means.
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Maybe he meant public opinion.
Fran-
Kay will NEVER sound good.
Nails meet chalk board teacher.
MTU, you caught me in a screw up. Christy Matthewson was “Big Six”
During my workout today at the gym, this old timer (who noticed I was wearing a Yankee t-shirt) told me a story about how he and his dad used to go to Yankee Stadium regularly when he was a kid.
He also said that one of the worst days of his adolescent life was the day he attended the visitation of Babe Ruth’s body at the Stadium after his passing.
Now I would imagine there are still plenty of people living in NY who was also at the Stadium that rainy day, but I don’t imagine there are too many of those folks living here in the Chicagoland area.
You just never know what kind of people you will run into on a day-to-day basis.
Oh, Oh!!! Casey Daigle is getting cuffed around by the “Zona team. He needs to go home and get some pitching pointers from his wife.
I actually saw Dimaggio in his final year, and Mantle in his first. I have a home run ball from Yaztremski (those outfield reserves were two dollars} and went to college in Boston when you could into Fenway for nothing much when you cut class. Let me say,though, while I get OPS, most of the other stuff escapes me. What matters to me is who gets the clutch hits, who makes the clutch play and who throws the clutch striikeout
There are old New Yorkers living everywhere.
I hear there’s even one in Utah.
GB-
No worries.
I knew right away it wasn’t you, and that Killer was up to his old tricks again.
MTU,
Tomorrow Kay will sound good because it’s the 1st game.
After that….
Thanks for the LR quotes Sam, this is the great stuff of ST! What’s he got on Joba?
blake February 25th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I was expecting Rothschild to say Banuelos was too short and had too good of a delivery to have much of a future……
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Not that LR said that much…
MTU, forgive “Killer”. He’s had a head injury. One of his ladies took acception to one of his other ladies and hit him with a skillet.
Jeers-
I snuck in under the cover of darkness via the old Spanish trail.
Very hush hush and all that.
Alright GB if you say so but he better mind his kibbles and bits.
For now he’s on probabtion.
Casey Daigle gets roughed up at the ballpark and goes home and gets comforted by Jennie Finch. That a tough life.
Fran-
I might be able to stand him for 1 game.
I’ll try my best.
Oh well. There goes my dream of Michael Kay going on a season long honeymoon.
Michael Kay haters vacate.
Isn’t Cone going to be back in the booth this season ?
MTU and Giuseppe, LOL
Giuseppe Franco February 25th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Oh well. There goes my dream of Michael Kay going on a season long honeymoon.
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He’ll be invigorated this year and worse than ever
Prufrock-
Then let’s take away his Viagra and feed him some saltpeter instead.
Anything to help the cause.
Welcome Tomingeorgia and thanks for your service.
Who knows? Maybe.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....Id=rss_nyy
MTU February 25th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Prufrock-
Then let’s take away his Viagra and feed him some saltpeter instead.
Anything to help the cause.
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Dude, whatever it takes.
Nobody here knows Guidry or Shantz or any of the others, except for the other old warrior, GB7. Does it make any sense for me to try to contribute any more?
GB-
What great feel good story that would be.
Tom, I’m just a kid. Randy, Pat M. and MTU are ancient. We’re talking Fred Flintone neighbor old.
***Flintstone***
I do suggest that you brush up on code decyphering, though. These people can’t spell for squat on here.
GB7,
I dated both Wilma and Betty!
MTU, it would be great to see. Teams send their broken pitchers to NYYs and they fix them at the cost of one quality prospect.
I wonder what will happen to Prior, Garcia, or Colon if they don’t make the big league club.
You would think since Prior and Colon have pitched in the majors in some time that they would accept a minor league assignment from the Yanks as insurance.
But I tend to believe Garcia would be headed to another organization. He’s the most likely of the three to get a major league offer from another team.
tomingeorgia February 25th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
GB7,
I dated both Wilma and Betty!
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Betty was a hottie. Wilma had a thing going with Dino.
Oops…
You would think since Prior and Colon haven’t pitched in the majors in some time that they would accept a minor league assignment from the Yanks as insurance.
Prior doesn’t have an out as far as I know. Colon does.
Colon has an out in his deal if he doesn’t make the team, not sure about Prior I think he might be in the organization for the year.
It’s good to see that Larry Rothschild is from the pitching school of repeated mechanics which he’ll preach to at least one starter and one reliever until they get it.
He’s probably anxious to see Phelps, Warren, Noesi, and the B’s in game action during the next 3 weeks.
I think Prior has said he would consider it.
After natural ability, repeating your delivery is the most important thing for pitchers…..except for Manny Banuelos, he needs more funk
Tomingeorgia,
There are many of us with, how shall I say it, distant memories. Don’t let GB fool you. They wouldn’t let him use his real name, Methusalah, on the board.
I remember Shantz. He was very small and darn good even as an older pitcher in the early 60s.
Rothschild hasn’t had this much talent to work with in a long time.
Just like unwrapping Xmas presents.
Gonna feel good.
# GreenBeret7 February 25th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Prior doesn’t have an out as far as I know. Colon does.
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Thanks. I had no idea what clause(s) they had in their contracts.
Blake-
ManBan has funk in his trunk, and he’s gonna go there and open up a can of whoop a*s to use all season long.
GF-
Prior agreement (sorry I couldn’t resist).
I have a feeling, only that since I don’t even understand the statistical abbreviations for the most part, that the Yankees will be all right with the bottom of the pitching staff. One of Colon or Garcia will be good for us. Garcia’s record last year would have won the division instead of AJ’s. GB7, Wilma liked it doggy.
blake February 25th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
After natural ability, repeating your delivery is the most important thing for pitchers…..except for Manny Banuelos, he needs more funk
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haha settle down now, don’t want to endure another liberation movement.
Tom-
Her kid wasn’t named Bam Bam for no reason.
Tom-
And by the way, welcome to the asylum.
Er, I mean, blog.
J. Alfred Prufrock February 25th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
blake February 25th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
After natural ability, repeating your delivery is the most important thing for pitchers…..except for Manny Banuelos, he needs more funk
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haha settle down now, don’t want to endure another liberation movement.
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Free Manny!
Thanks for the Rothschild pitching quotes, Sam.
Tom, I don’t know for sure about Wilma. Just going by what Randy said. he said that he used to watch her through the bedroom window. That must have been a plan by wilma. Notice that the bedroom windows had no curtains.
there are ladies present on the blog.
This is sounding worse and worse daily…….
BrianCostaWSJ Mets Took $25 Million Loan From MLB http://on.wsj.com/gADd8r
pat, they’re starting to look a lot like last year’s Rangers.
MTU,
Thanks for the welcome. I love the Yankees, but my internet is too slow to watch tomorrow’s game. I’ll be listening to it, though. From rural Georgia, even that’s a treat. 73 degrees down here today, and the forsytiithias are in bloom. Ready for baseball.
pat, did you notice that they had already borrowed $50 mil and have a $400 mil debt on the team? It’s getting uglier.
Pat and GB,
This is really making the Wilpons look even worse. They kept insisting they had the money to run the team. Apparently not without some help.
Tom-
I had a friend how used to live in Dahlonega. Is that rural enough ?
I’d take 73 degrees right about now.
I’ve been ready for weeks now.
Should be an interesting Spring.
tomingeorgia February 25th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
‘Wilma liked it doggy’.
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Awesome, that should go over really well here.
pat -
OMG. I really do feel bad for the players on that team right now…
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Welcome tomingeorgia!
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So, Manny Banuelos has yet to throw a pitch in AAA, much less MLB, and we’re writing him off because he’s “short”? Did i follow THAT conversation?
It’s a good thing there will not be any more shuttle flights or they would be able to smell the stink coming from the Mets all the way in space.
edit: “who” not “how”. dyslexia strikes again.
Have I been under a rock? I just heard Dwight Howard really wants to play in LA. And LaRussa deflecting PEDs talk about Pujols?
pat, GB7 – we’ve seen this coming for over a year.
The Mets, and Wilpons, are in serious financial trouble. The WSJ, and NY Times, have been on top of this. Beyond the debt on the team, the have debt on CitiField, and SNY. SNY is their only holding that appears to be making any money, and that includes a lot – if not most/all – of their real estate properties. It has been guesstimated that they owe over $1B on the team/ballpark/SNY, in addition to whatever they get nailed for on the Madoff affair.
This is why they’ve been cutting back on their minor league ops and player development for over a year. And why they will be sellers this year.
Fred is blowing smoke. I think they ultimately will be forced to sell a majority stake, if not the whole team, and likely SNY, in order to pay their bills. It will take over a year, but I think the sale will occur.
Thanks for the welcome, Doreen. For Deal With It, deal with it.
Hey, I see on the news that Khaddafi has a few dollars socked away. Maybe he’s one of the people that Jeff Wilpon says is quietly looking to buy in.
Wouldn’t that be something…..
So the Mets were loaned money and are being propped up by MLB…….does that mean they’ll be trading for Cliff Lee soon?
Joe from LI -
You are the “go-to” guy on the Mets’ saga. It’s really a sad state of affairs.
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GTLU Update: I have to leave tomorrow at 10:15 to go and pick up my car. I will take copy down lineups that have been submitted through 11:00 a.m. ONLY when I get back. I will post winners as soon as I can. I apologize for this. It was an unforeseen complication in GTLU.
Tomingeorgia,
Let me add my welcome as well….you’re in Braves country down there.
Blake,
I was just going to post that the MLB loaned the Mets $25M. But the Dodgers can’t get an advance from Fox West?
GTLU Update: I have to leave tomorrow at 10:15 to go and pick up my car.
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Doreen,
What is more important? GTLU or your car?
You know of course I am kidding. Good luck with the car.
M,
That doesn’t make a lot sense to me…..especially given the reasoning behind the Mets fnancial issues.
A new guy comes on the blog, and the first thing MTU does is drag him down to his level, us old guys just can’t up, and no Mike, I did not leave “get it” out of that sentance.
GB7 – you have a fellow Georgian to mess with now. Oh the weather, it was cool here in NC today, only 68, but it will be back in the mid 70′s by Sunday.
Thank God baseball is just around the corner.
Doreen -
The new VW and the start of ST baseball, life is good.
Joe,
Anybody who buys the Mets would be foolish not to insist on SNY as part of the deal since as you said, it is the only Wilpon holding making money.
can’t keep up Killer must be near by ……….
My solution is for the Yankees to buy the Mets and let Hank run them……
I think it is a good sign that my car saga ends the same day as Spring Training games begin!!!
blake -
Almost correct. The Yankees buy the Mets, trade any players worth getting to the Yankees for High A prospects, then who cares.
Big Al
OMG — We had the same thought!!!!
For a team playing in the media capital, the Mets are as non-descript as the Florida Marlins for pure baseball related news. Madoff put a real crimp in the Mets style.
Let’s play swap. Yankees buy the Mets and we want a varsity team and a JV team. Who goes to the Mets and who comes the Yankees?
Doreen -
Great minds ……………….
Betsy I was out. If you’re still here, James Cromwell is probably best known for his role in LA Confidential, a terrific movie. He also had a role in the excellent HBO show Six Feet Under.
m -
The Mets are already a JV team, any lower, they’d be called AAA, or worse.
Blake,
Thanks for the welcome, I saw Allie Reynolds, Bob Turley, Whitey Ford when he came up, Phil Rizutto, Tommy Tresh, and a lot more. I love this blog.
Joe/Fran, I knew thee was trouble heading their way, but, hadn’t really been keeping up with it day-to-day. There are about 5 teams in deep trouble right now, not counting houston, whose owner is looking to get out. Add on that the new CBA is coming up fast and now the new head of the union and Selig setting up his retirement parachute. Baseball can’t continue holding off new ownership by hand picking their friends. Not many have the money to want to risk to buy into the country club. not sure if trump was invested in Madoff or not, but, just because they don’t like Mark Cuban, jerry Jones and others, they can’t afford to get real picky. I wonder why Bill Gates has never joined the club? Remember when they didn’t want absentee ownership, but, now, they have foreign ownership?
Yeah, I can’t think of anyone I want from their team. They’re pretty awful.
Ill take Weight, Reyes, and Santana if he comes back healthy……Hank can be the owner/GM/manager of the rest.
Is NY still a national league town if all things all equal (i know they rarely are)?
tomingeorgia -
Your in good company, welcome, from another old timer that started following the Yankees in the 40′s. We’ve seen many greats in our day.
Maybe Jason Bay.
Hi Fran – I just read the papers. I really don’t see anyway this plays out any differently. Selling their baseball stake really seems to be the only way out of this mess for them.
Oh, for a ST game tomorrow…… What I would give to hear John Sterling say “Theeeeeeeeee Yankees win!!!!”, even for a ST game.
m -
I’d take the left side of their IF as backups, and 1 or 2 pitchers as well.
So I’m at this USF baseball game and I got here at 730, it started at 7 and there’s no where to sit. So I’m standing up by 3rd base. Will definitely remember to get here earlier from now on.
We have enough Weight!
I take dic-key as well, perfect inning eater.
Let’s play swap. Yankees buy the Mets and we want a varsity team and a JV team. Who goes to the Mets and who comes the Yankees?
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RA and Pelfrey come on as the 4th and 5th starters. Burnett goes to the Mets. Beltran as the 4th OFer. Wright gets shopped for a big prospect haul that will eventually play for the yankees. Santana would make a good dead line guy if he proves healthy
Most of the mets stay on the mets. Though it’d be nice to break in Yankee prospects on the mets in a pressure free environment.
What if it had to be a position swap?
I’d trade Reyes as well.
I’m hoping to see great things from Montero, let’s hope he can deliver at this level, I believe he’ll adjust, and be everything we have come to believe he would be.
Al-
I was just trying to make Tom feel right at home from the get go.
No point in beating around the bush.
K-rod would make it as a setup man.
GB,
Yes, they did everything to keep Cuban from the Texas Rangers. I don’t really know why. He has the money and is an active owner.
I agree with Joe about the Wilpons having to sell. Not sure about Trump though. He is talking about running for President. That might preclude him from owning a team.
Jerk. Reyes straight up for Jete, would u do it?
MTU -
I thought that’s he said he was doing ….. My bad.
Yes, they did everything to keep Cuban from the Texas Rangers. I don’t really know why. He has the money and is an active owner.
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He would rock the boat and isn’t part of the old boys club. Thats the problem with nepotism from your commissioner.
I would trade Arod to the Mets then trade him back to the Yankees and have the Mets eat half his salary.
Jerk. Reyes straight up for Jete, would u do it?
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2006-2008 Reyes? If I’m getting that player yes. If I’m getting the injury prone pouting Reyes from the last 2 seasons, no.
He is younger and has more upside going forward, and the better defense, but I’d be wary of it.
Fran, I think Selig’s afraid that he might be too active. He could make the young George Steinbrenner look like a miser. Same with Jerry jones. They ruffle feathers and Selig can’t deal with that.
Fran-
If Trump were to be both President of the US and Mets he could just declare martial law, and procalim the Mets World Champs even if they finished dead last.
So there’s that.
I’d love to see Cuban try and buy the Mets, and if Selig tries to freeze him out again, I’d hope he’d drag him and MLB into court. Something has to be done about Selig, he’s done enough damage to the game already.
sp: proclaim. sorry.
Nah, take his whole body of work, I think it’s a tough one, but i would do it but be wary of it.
Let’s face it, if GMS III was alive, and in his prime today, and did not own the Yankees, Selig would not let him become an owner.
Al-
How you been ?
Maybe Selig will drown in his Fruit Loops.
GB and Jerkface,
You would think that MLB would want active owners with a passion for the sport.
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MTU,
That was funny. Of course, it may be the only way for the Mets to be World Champs in the forseeable future.
Reyes? Chinadoll prima dona. I take my chances with Jeter and wait for his replacement to be born.
I think Cuban would be good for the sport.
GreenBeret7 February 25th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Imagine getting a nickname like “Big Six” (Walter Johnson) because you’re 6 feet tall.
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I wonder what Mae West would have said.
Fran-
That, or breaking into Ft. Knox.
Trouble is there may only be IOU’s there as well.
Blake-
I think so too.
Cubans are excellent ballplayers, and they are highly motivated.
I was thinking the other day, if the Yankees were ever to have the kind of financial problems the Dodgers or the Mets were currently in, they could put together a group of players past and present to form an ownership group probably pretty easily who could come up with $200M.
MTU -
Pretty good for the most part. One more surgery in May, and things should be good.
Everything is coming in bloom here, and I need real baseball, worse this off season than ever before, don’t know why, but I just missed it even more.
We hope to go back north mid June – July, and I’ll catch a couple of games at the stadium, and 6-10 at SWB. I miss seeing the young players before they make it up.
Bojo-
That’s easy.
Do you love me, or is that a baseball in your pocket ?
Good night folks, catch you all tomorrow, play nice.
It seems like Fox/Murdoch is trying to get back into baseball. That’s one group that needs to be frozen out…either that or make Fox divest it’s self of their MLB TV contract.
Are you guys getting a room?
Al-
Glad to hear you’re doing better.
I’d love to see the youngsters play at Minor league stadiums.
Best I’ll be able to do is watch them on TV.
Enjoy.
pat February 25th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
I was thinking the other day, if the Yankees were ever to have the kind of financial problems the Dodgers or the Mets were currently in, they could put together a group of players past and present to form an ownership group probably pretty easily who could come up with $200M.
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Berra, jeter, Rodriguez, Posada, Sabathia, Pettitte, Teixeira and Rivera have some serious cash.
Pat,
I never thought of it, but that’s probably true. And it wouldn’t take too many players
Alex could cash in a couple of CDs and buy the team.
tomingeorgia February 25th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Thanks for the welcome, Doreen. For Deal With It, deal with it.
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Ok, it it necessary for you to be a sexual deviant on a sports blog ? I believe that MTU told you there are ladies present on this blog. I for one would appreciate you keeping your perversion to yourself.
I wonder if Buffet ever have any interest in owning a ML team, that’s one guy i can think will through the old boy screening process with little difficulties. I think he owns Omaha Royal… well, and prolly the city of Omaha.
Deal with it-
For the record, that was Prufrock.
I agree with Jerkface..
Beltran as 4th OFer…Peltrey and Ducky (censor) as 4th and 5th, Santana when healthy, that kid Jerri Meija for bullpen, Hank to them as owner.
Buffett said he wouldn’t own a team.
Scott Boras will buy the Angels
L alos like that Angel Pagan kid…got some talent
MTU February 25th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
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Thank you, I stand corrected.
GreenBeret7 February 25th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Scott Boras will buy the Angels
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Wouldn’t that be something?
To be more specific, a major league team.
Nat February 25th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
To be more specific, a major league team.
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That eliminates the Mets
GB-
That would be poetic justice.
Let Boras get a taste of his own medicine.
I’m still predicting a July fire sale over at Shea…They’ll sell players to whom takes the most debt off their books. Fans be darned.
MTU February 25th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
GB-
That would be poetic justice.
Let Boras get a taste of his own medicine.
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Who wins the contract disputes with players and Angels? Boras the owner or Boras the agent.
Meant Citifield…still can’t get used to that
GB-
He’d be a “double-agent”.
Tough call.
Who wins the contract disputes with players and Angels? Boras the owner or Boras the agent
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GB,
Does he only sign his own clients?
Someone had posted here a few days back some suggestion that Wilpons had helped identify investors for Madoff. If true, they are sooooooooooo screwed. They will be fighting for financial survival and won’t care about fan reaction. They’ll sell assets to get team ready for sale.
Should be a fun summer watching them. Please be kind to Mets fans and offer to adopt them as Yankee fans, and help break them in to a different culture.
BoJo,
Especially if they are out of the playoff picture. I see them trading Reyes for sure. Don’t think they’ll be able to sign him.
Boras wouldn’t be able to afford his clients.
Fran-
I don’t want Boston getting Reyes.
Fran the original February 25th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Who wins the contract disputes with players and Angels? Boras the owner or Boras the agent
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GB,
Does he only sign his own clients?
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Not if the players were friends with Moreno.
m-
I’m not so sure. Boras might drive a hard bargain with himself.
-Boras(owner): according to our pythagorean saber analysis, we think Mr.Weaver should get paid by this X amount…
-Boras(agent): Mr.Boras I believe u have vastly undervalued an asset as valuable as Mr. Weaver, (handing Boras the owner a 350 pages detail study of weaver career chart) ahem…, we believe this team would actually implode in his possible absence. figuratively and literally.
-Boras(owner) Mr. Boras, our NASA saber research team recently discover this (shows Boras the agent a 1500 page study of big bang baseball theory construct with the absences of Weaver)
-Silence….
-Stare down…
MTU,
If he salted away his Yankees commissions, he might be able to buy a team.
Watching Costas and Bob Gibson and some jerk that used to be Gibson’s catcher. Gibson is a funny guy.
NOW!!!
Santana, Reyes, Beltran, Bay, KRod, Perez, and Castillo will all be available, and other team may pick up a Reyes if they take a Perez or Castillo.
m-
Or a Country.
MTU,
I don’t want Reyes going to Boston either. But I expect the Mets to trade him before he hits Free Agency.
Boras will sign every one of his own players but give them all opt out clauses after one year. It’s the structure Finley wanted!
Reyes would look pretty evil in that Boston line-up leading off.
The Dominican Republic. All the citizens would be Boras clients.
New Post – Yankees to honor Boss with pregame ceremony Saturday
Fran-
I understand. Just so long as he doesn’t wind up wearing bloody sox I don’t care where he goes.
Ellsbury, Reyes, Crawford, AGon, Pukeymon, Ortiz, Pedroia, Drew, C
Evil
m-